Another New Year meant another year pass by.

I always remembered the significant of each passing of a new year. Each year means that you have gone through an exciting past experience and become one year wiser or i might say older. Many often assume that a New Year celebration is an excuse for having a great party, go out as it is a holiday and having a good meal to eat with all your friends. New Year is not mean to celebrating it alone and one should one have many friends to be with during the night as it happen to me every year which I more prefer. And yet, some do believe New Year as an opportunity to wash away the bad luck with having a dip in the sea exactly on the time transition of old to New Year until the time tsunami happened, no one want to touch the sea water. This superstitious are blending in on our modern society and no way its going to go away soon.

Nothing really significant happens to me on 2005. Life on this 12 month turns to be as calm as it can be. What I never forget is the time that we have to attend two mourning death in a period of 2 month. It’s sure meant nothing but surely it gives me lots of thinking to do. Both of them are my friend’s relatives. I can gladly say both left this world in orderly peace and not as the last death event I witnessed where it’s quite disturbing for me. Looking at people’s lost, I think of my personal lost. Sooner or later I have to experience the lost of my close one. Am I prepared for it? My mind keep telling me that no one can preparing or predict of having a lost of someone close. One might have to face and overcome it because it is the part of growing up and living life as many do.

I have a great chance to recall at my past experience during pervious years. Many mistakes was done, come along lesson was learned. I manage to look at myself as an outsider, and indeed there are many weakness points that I should aware. Having making many bad decision are one of the weaknesses. Impatient is a liability in life and it have to be fixed. Impatient do always follows by a bad decision afterwards. It’s happen to me many times and I wonders when it going to end. With all this weaknesses, I do have some strong point to be happy with. Life looks brighter and wonderful this year. It’s really feel good as there are some financial difficulties arise, in which I quite happy with it.

So, what is going to happen after this? I don’t dare to forecast or even to plan it. I have made some prediction and pray hard that it going to be true, so what if it’s not I have no objection about it. Life is a journey that full with adventures and surprises that will creates your individuality and selfness.

Happy New Year 2006!

Hey! Women where are your rights?

Statistic shows us that now the numbers of women are greater than man in the world. I don’t know where the proof is but with a click of a button of mouse, I can find it via internet. That is not the point. The real issue now is that women are having their rights politicized by bunch of political man that thought they can change the world to a better place. Those political men really know how to get in the women nerves by setting up a bill that claim to protect women but the reality is that men get more benefits in it. Is that what we say FAIR?

What I realized that the Islamic Family Law (FT) (Amendment) Bill 2005 was started by an incident. It is to believe that an army suggested to his wife that he want to get married again. With out her further notice, his wife splashes him with a bottle of acid on his face. Never have I known what happen to his wife but I can safely bet that she in jail as she done something bad. The husband having a thought of divorce his wife and married his second lover, but it is not as he expected when he get rejected by his second lovers. Stupid things started to happen as the newspaper especially the Malay Daily presenting a good PR for the army and blaming all his misfortune and despair to the wife and second lover rejection. Never did he know that he is the one who cause himself to all suffering that he bears today. First his first wife of pouring acid on to his face and second, then the second lover who have a second thought of get married to a facial disfigured man. I cannot blame the second lover as no one want to get married with an ugly guy and sorry to say that this is the fact of life.

Indeed that pouring acid on to a person face is a severe crime and punishable according to law, but in another sense, I’m not surprise this thing happen. As to his wife, I do believe that she will not regret of doing it to her husband. As for me speculate that she was hit on her high point on anger management means that she lost her temper. So, what I can say is that, this is a crime of passion and was invoke by anger feeling. I read that the media and news paper tend to divert the blame to the women and surprisingly from women itself. It seems to pointing that we’re going back to the old mentality in where now we have a term called “women rights” when the man thought they can do anything they want as it happened hundred years ago. In a point that I quote this absurd comment on Berita Harian Online of an article titled, “Nasib wanita lebih terbela”.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin, ketika mempertahankan rang undang-undang yang diluluskan Parlimen Khamis lalu itu berkata, akta berkenaan sudah lengkap, malah tiada mana-mana negara yang menyediakan undang-undang seumpama itu.

“Kebanyakan pindaan dalam rang undang berkenaan memberi banyak kelebihan kepada wanita,” katanya kepada Berita Harian semalam.

Women today have little say about anything of their life. As in religion, man does in charge and women are the side kick or the unimportant. I am a man who believes in God; but have a different thought of knowing that women have no rights of being some one important in society. As I know, it is impossible for women to become a leader in a religious base community. Somehow, women sometime did slip away for the norm of society and really become a leader, which is President of Philippine, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Margaret Thatcher the past Britain Prime Minister, Queen Elizabeth II and many more. Never I see that a women to hold a high position in a main religion in the world. It’s really impossible to happen as man has the head start on everything for thousand of years and the fight of women right just happen not more than 50 years ago. So, there are still long way for women to go.